Ultimates #7-12 Annotated

[Two Cities, Two Worlds]

Ultimates #7 - "The Flower Reaps, The Hammer Yields"

• Falcon, Fury, Widow, and Hawkeye arrive in Tian.
• Earlier, they plan to acquire the Celestials and Eternals as allies in the war against the COT.
• We get a recap of the Hawkeye mini: SEAR creates a virus to eliminate mutants, then create their own serum to build metas. The metas rebel and take over the country in a month.
• When they meet with Xorn and Zorn, Zorn doesn't want to get involved, but Xorn tells his oracle to peacefully reach out to the City.
• Maker, Children, and City respond by hijacking the frequency and issuing a warning to Tian; they are coming.
• In the Himalayas, Agent Flumm brings the Hulk back into the fray by threatening him with the torture of Betty Ross.
• Hulk attacks the City.

Ultimates #8 - "Let's Talk About It"

• Hulk is smashing up the City. Maker confronts him.
• Xorn lays Oracle to rest. Zorn leads the Eternals to attack the City.
• POTUS is granted power over SHIELD and prepares to speak to the senate/house.
• Spider-woman and Jamie chill in the Triskelion until it's taken over by SHIELD.
• Tony and Thor are ambushed at Stark Tower.
• Maker bargains with the Hulk.
• President speaks to the government.
• Maker reveals that the US Gov is tricking Hulk.
• President reveals that although one nuke did not work against the City, they have now launched all the nukes!

Ultimates #9 - "All-Consuming"

• Fury, Hawkeye, and Widow depart Tian to watch the battle between Eternals and the COT.
• Marvin Flumm and the agents of SHIELD send unconscious Jamie and Spider-Woman to the Cube as they take over the Triskelion.
• Thor and Tony take out the attacking SHIELD forces, and learn of what POTUS has done. However, Tony starts bleeding...
• The COT gain the upper hand over the Eternals, but Zorn takes off his mask and turns into a Black Hole, wreaking havoc onto the City.
• POTUS explains to Congress that what's done is done, the attack had to happen. The nukes and the singularity turn the City into a nuclear wasteland.
• As Maker and the COT assess the damage, Maker gets a young COT and anoints him with a name: Death. Death is sent with an anti-matter bomb to the middle of the Congressional Assembly, and detonates, wiping out everybody.

Ultimates #10 - "Invincible Under The Sun"

• After the blast, War Machine picks up the secretary of energy as the designated survivor to become the new potus.
• Wreckage is assessed by SHIELD. Flumm tries to locate Nick.
• Fury, Falcon, Hawkeye, and Widow escape from a Heli-Carrier trying to bring them in. Nick splits off from the rest.
• Tony is having hallucinations of a young boy. He has a plan to deal with Reed involving him, Thor, and one other person. But first, he needs to see a doctor.
• Flumm locates Hawkeye, Falcon, and Widow.
• Tony gets a check up diagnostic from Invisible Woman. He tells her that Reed is alive, and blew up DC.
• Reed evolves the City once more to finish off their enemies.
• In the ruins of Asgard, a hand emerges with Mjolnir from Yggdrasil.

Ultimates #11 - "Long May It Reign"

• Tony calls Carol Danvers, telling her to come to washington. He needs her to access the president.
• Tony and Thor in the meantime dispatch a number of SHIELD agents trying to take them down.
• Widow, Falcon, and Hawkeye arrive at the West Coast Avengers Facility (Wackos). We meet Hugo; he has a bunch of people in tubes.
• Flumm talks to POTUS, and the prez thinks it's stupid how many resources they're divulging to go after the Ultimates instead of dealing with the real threats.
• Kratos Club comes to the new independent Texas with solid gold.
• Tony talks to the invisible little boy only he can see. They surrender to SHIELD forces in order to have a meeting with POTUS.
• Widow and the gang get ambushed by a squad of Giant-Men.
• Tony and Thor meet with POTUS and propose a plan to deal with Maker and the COT. A little robot iron man starts moving (controlled by the invisible kid?). Don't worry, it's somehow all part of the plan.
• Widow and the gang beat the giant-men, but are still captured by SHIELD.
• POTUS has a call with Maker, revealing that he does not want war with The City, and will turn over Stark as part of some kind of treaty.
• Stark is given up to the COT, and left face to face with The Maker.
• 1 more to go!

Ultimates #12 - "Quorum"

• Glad we get a conclusion to some of the main stuff, although I'm not too mad about the less interesting plot points left over for Humphries to take on.
• Tony is revealed to have a sentient brain tumor; that tumor is sentient and has techkinesis. "Anthony" goes and talks to The City, convincing it to give up Reed Richards as the leader since he's made some choices that inhibit the COT and regress it for his control.
• Anthony builds a Iron-Man mech while Richards injects Hulk with giant-man serum. Big kaiju fight. Thor and Sue Richards come in to finish them both off.
• That's all I really care about haha.